Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
New Americanists in Poland
ISBN-10
3631643705
ISBN-13
9783631643709
Edition
New
Publisher
Peter Lang AG
Imprint
Peter Lang AG
Country of Manufacture
DE
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 7th, 2013
Print length
144 Pages
Weight
296 grams
Dimensions
15.60 x 21.70 x 1.50 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: from c 1900 -Gender studies: women
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The book focuses on the representations of female sexuality and the body in South Asian American women’s fiction. It analyzes several novels and over a dozen short stories to explore the mechanisms employed by women writers of South Asian descent to challenge the culturally sanctioned role of the female body as the carrier of cultural tradition.
The body, which is a frequently explored topic in immigrant literature, has for some reason been rather neglected by literary scholars. This book attempts to address this imbalance by paying critical attention to representations of female sexuality and the female body in South Asian American womens fiction. The key premise of this study is that the prevalent popular and critical attitude to this body of literature as operating according to binary opposites (America-Asia, freedom-repression) is somewhat reductive. The book tries to probe deeper into the literary texts under study to show what mechanisms the writers employ to challenge the culturally sanctioned role of the female body as the carrier of cultural tradition.
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